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"The Bama Effect is Real"
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:06 pm
The Bama Effect
Congrats to Tennessee and Arkansas for your supreme level of mental toughness.
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Percentiles are an effective way of measuring a team's performance (with opponent adjustments) in a single number. You can look at a team's schedule and quickly discern trends, highs, lows, etc.
Alabama's trends are, shall we say, strong. The Crimson Tide have played at the 80th percentile or higher in every game but one (you can guess the one), and after a bit of a dip against Texas A&M, they've improved for three straight weeks, from 80th percentile to 83rd to 88th (shutting down Leonard Fournette without overemphasizing him) to 95th (showing off a new pass rush by sacking Dak Prescott nine times).
I'm more interested in Alabama's opponents, however. The Bama Effect appears to be real. For all the attention Tide fans give to scheduling -- and how it kind of seems like every opponent gets a week off before playing Bama -- opponents should be more focused on getting a break afterward.
Let's look at conference opponents:
* Ole Miss' average performance was in the 97th percentile in the two weeks before Bama and the 41st in the two weeks after.
* Georgia's average performance was in the 86th percentile in the three weeks before Bama and the 41st in the three weeks after.
* Texas A&M's average performance was in the 79th percentile in the three weeks before Bama and the 35th in the three weeks after.
* For the season, LSU was averaging in the 84th percentile before Bama. Last week against Arkansas: 26th.
Arkansas and Tennessee appear to have immunized against the Bama Effect. Everybody else in the SEC: not so much. Alabama's latest victim, Mississippi State, plays at Arkansas this Saturday.
Congrats to Tennessee and Arkansas for your supreme level of mental toughness.
This post was edited on 11/17/15 at 12:09 pm
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:12 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Someone should write an economics paper on it.
This post was edited on 11/17/15 at 1:39 pm
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:14 pm to SummerOfGeorge
You guys should all start taking your bye weeks after us, you are most likely going to lose to us anyway, so might as well rest up for the rest of the schedule
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:15 pm to MontyFranklyn
Fix your post or you're going to get ripped.....
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:17 pm to MontyFranklyn
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Someone should right an economics paper on it.
You're probably write
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:20 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Ole Miss played 2 horrible teams before Alabama. Of course they wouldn't keep putting up 70 point games.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:21 pm to ReauxlTide222
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Ole Miss played 2 horrible teams before Alabama. Of course they wouldn't keep putting up 70 point games.
Read it again. Those figures strip out the opponent. Ole Miss probably would have won those games by 40 even if they played poorly, but they also played two very clean games, which is why those performances were 90+ percentile performances.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:22 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Your back must be a mess from all that autofellatio.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:23 pm to rbWarEagle
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Your back must be a mess from all that autofellatio.
I'm just the messenger. The computers and a guy who graduated from Missouri wrote the article.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:25 pm to rbWarEagle
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Your back must be a mess from all that autofellatio.
I wouldn't have time to post here if that were the case.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:26 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Arkansas and Tennessee appear to have immunized against the Bama Effect. Everybody else in the SEC: not so much.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:27 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I'm referring to Bama fans' general tendency to suck their own dicks.
This post was edited on 11/17/15 at 12:28 pm
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:28 pm to rbWarEagle
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Bama fans' general tendency to suck their own dicks.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:32 pm to narddogg81
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You guys should all start taking your bye weeks after us, you are most likely going to lose to us anyway, so might as well rest up for the rest of the schedule
FTR, I noted this at the beginning of the year. Also, AU is definitely immune. Since we play at the end of the season, the only way to judge it is performance in the SECCG as applicable. Considering we have blown out our opponent in the SECCG the past 3 times and came within a few seconds of beating Peyton Manning and Tennessee as about a 20 point underdog in the 4th appearance, I would say AU pretty much chuckles at the bama effect and plays better immediately after playing bama.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:35 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Peyton Manning and Tennessee as about a 20 point underdog in the 4th appearance.
I will be sure to let the author know that he is wrong, Mike Dubose's 1998 team had no such effect on teams.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:40 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Arkansas and Tennessee appear to have immunized against the Bama Effect. Everybody else in the SEC: not so much. Alabama's latest victim, Mississippi State, plays at Arkansas this Saturday.
Arky loves our sloppy seconds. You're welcome, Hawgs.
Posted on 11/17/15 at 12:41 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Congrats to Tennessee and Arkansas for your supreme level of mental toughness.
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